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When she first met his parents, for instance, she was a little surprised when she had to sleep on the couch for the stay and his family ordered pizza for dinner.

"He doesn't have to impress anyone (except probably me) ... "It's not like I went out in search of some 'working class hero' type because all of the guys from my school were taken," Emily*, 27, told .

Emily attended a west coast private school, while her carpenter boyfriend Alex* has his GED.

Assortive mating is defined by the process in which people marry mates of equal or more education and financial mobility.

Black women aren’t generally taught assortive mating, because doing so makes you open to the black community criticisms that you’re too “bourgie” or you’re gold digging.

"Strangers who have never met yet who share a class background often have more in common with each other than spouses with whom they share their life if they came from different classes," sociologist Jessi Streib, author of But thanks in large part to the Internet leveling the playing field, people have more opportunity to meet and hook up with those from different walks of life.

Take, for instance, Kim* and Zach, who met through Craigslist casual encounters.

Hmmm….you’re gold digging to expect to marry someone who worked as hard as you did to get what you got?

One implication of assortative mating is greater household income inequality, since education is a strong — and strengthening — predictor of earnings.

Households with two college graduates multiply that earnings power by two and are doing much better than households with less-educated couples.

Jeremy Greenwood of the University of Pennsylvania and colleagues estimate that assortative mating pushes up the Gini coefficient (a measure of income inequality) from 0.34 to 0.43.

The book raises some interesting questions about what we look for in a mate, as well as some alternative solutions for the marriage-minded among us.